On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:20:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > And, while I'm on it -- once a program is packaged (like Open Office) and is > in unstable, is there any general rule of thumb for how long it takes to go > to testing and finally to stable?
-> testing: once all its dependencies are in testing, once it builds on all architectures and once a single version of the package has spent at least 10 days (generally, there are exceptions) in unstable without release-critical bugs being filed. See http://www.debian.org/devel/testing for the details. -> stable: when a new Debian release happens, full stop. There's no easy rule of thumb to give you, because it depends completely on how releasable the package is in unstable, and on how releasable all its dependencies are. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
